Dove Hair Care and award-winning actress and singer Idina Menzel invite America’s best glee clubs, choirs and groups of 3 to 10 musically-inclined friends to compete for their own brush with greatness. The «Dove Hair Care Brush with Greatness Sing4All» video contest will give one team a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform the iconic Rodgers & Hammerstein song «My Favorite Things» live onstage at the Radio City Christmas Spectacular on December 28.
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adidas has launched a global sport marketing campaign dubbed “Danger Makes Legend” and is now inviting football fans to put their stills to a test by playing an online territorial and map-based game against their friends from Facebook or sport celebrities. The players from all around the globe are invited to the digital space where they can choose what city they are going to take over by using well-known football techniques.
Nikon Foundation kicked off a contest, focused on fashion and career opportunities for younger generation of people behind the lens. The recognized leader in the photo equipment industry and celebrated fashion and celebrity photographer John Wright are on the lookout for a person, who would become a paid assistant of the photographer for as long as three month.
Igor Aronov was named the winner of illy’s international photographic competition, “AuthentiCity— Revealing purity and authenticity in urban life,” which was held in collaboration with the NYC-based School of Visual Arts. He along with four other finalists, Matthew Baum, Caroline Shepard, Giselle Behrens and Carlos Alvarez Montero, took bespoke photo works, exploring the life of Big Apple, to the closing exhibition of the project, arranged during the New York City Wine & Food Festival on October 4–10.
Young people in the UK have the chance to show off their artistic skills and design their own vehicle of the future in the 2010 Toyota Dream Car Art Contest. The competition, now in its fifth year, challenges children around the world to draw or paint their vision for the ultimate car of tomorrow. Toyota’s aim is to encourage creativity, interest in cars and an understanding of the role they play in people’s lives.
The ‘inner world’ of things we consider unattractive or even disgusting, can be stunning—entrants of the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition prove it. To see this beauty, we just have to zoom in. This year, the micro-universe was explored by hundreds of entrants, who submitted more than 2,200 images, unlocking the secrets of the whole universe which we just can’t see with the naked eye. Each of the work was magnificent in its own way, but there had to be just one winner. Jonas King (Vanderbilt University, Department of Biological Sciences, Nashville, USA) with his image of 100 times magnified Anopheles mosquito’s heart colored with fluorescence technology scooped the $3,000 first prize.
The acclaimed Australian brand and design agencyDiDONATO is celebrating this week after receiving a Gold at the 2010 Australian Packaging Awards. Their entry, the Schweppes Brand Identity and Portfolio Range, was designed to unite the Schweppes brand and communicate one cohesive story across a vast collection of iconic products (over 100 SKU’s and 13 product formats).